ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Big Pod - 2nd December 2024

Episode Date: December 1, 2024

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Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughan and Hayley. Thank you, Bryn. Good morning. Welcome to the, Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. It is the 2nd of December today. Yep, that happened. That happened, it's December now. I've got to put up my Christmas tree. I think it's going to be this weekend. Really honestly thought you would have done this already.

I know, we've got like a council inspection on Thursday and so I'm just trying to make it work. You don't want to fail on a pollen count. Yeah, exactly. You don't want to fail on a pollen count. Yeah, exactly. You don't want to fail your building inspection on a pollen count. Have him coming in all sneezy. Or the inspector doesn't like how you've decorated your tree and that kind of sways his... He doesn't like my theme of birds and flowers?

Yeah. It's birds and flowers. Maybe he's more of a traditional bauble man. Could be a bauble man. Could push it over. He doesn't even really inspect the house. Oh, yeah. Just walks in. Christmas, tick, and he doesn't even really inspect the house. Oh yeah. Just walks in.

Christmas, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. Wowzers. Signed off. That would be annoying. The years gone so fast. All the work you've put into passing this final inspection

and the guy's like, looks great, bye. Yeah, yeah. Merry Christmas. Love the tree. What? We did everything. Coming up on the show,

the top six. Yeah, our good friend, friend of the show, Ron Weasley, Rupert Grint, is facing a massive tax bill. For his part...

That just gave me a chill down my spine at the idea of it. Yeah, $4 million. Has he been fighting it? He's been fighting it because they classed it as a certain sort of income and he had lawyers arguing that it wasn't that because it was from DVD sales and stuff

from the Harry Potter series. Right, royalties. Yeah, and I don't really understand tax law anything more than I'm very, very scared that one day they'll even ask. But they were trying to get it recategorised as a different sort of income because it had a much lower tax rate.

Right. I hope he wasn't spending these royalties in the meantime. Oh, that money would be gone. I know, right? Send me a bill for four million. Sure, you can send it. Yeah. Well, I don't know what's going to happen.

I'll be on the phone to Daniel Radcliffe ASAP. My man, my man has been too long. My man, it's me. I've got the top six spells to get rid of a massive tax bill. Okay, and that will work for most of us, do you think? Using magic, yes. Okay, amazing. Okay.

Well, speaking of money, next, our man has received huge compensation. Okay. After he purchased an item and it wasn't as expected. Play ZM's Flashborn and Hayley. Such 2010 summer vibes, that song. It does, yeah. Reminds me of being in my Mitsubishi Mirage, listening to like MGMT or something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. A bit of sunshine, you know? Yes, it does. Yeah, I'm really into that. Anyway, just a hot review of the hot music we play here at ZM. Now, there was a man who has received, I've translated to New Zealand dollars here, $4.37. Okay.

From Mars Wrigley UK, aka the chocolate company. Yes. One of the world's biggest food companies. Yeah. They do cat food as well, eh, Mars? Yes. They do the cat food. Do they?

Yeah. They're from the same factory. Do they do Friskies or something? Friskies and Mars bars. Have you ever seen those infographics and it's like all the- What companies control your food? Or just everything in the world? Was it Mars that also owned Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig?

And they were like- That's Nestle. Nestle, Nestle. Or is that Mars as well? I don't know. So they do some of their best known brands M&M's

Snickers Extra like the Chewing Gum Skittles and of course Mars Bars and Pedigree Cat Food Whiskers Neutro

and Royal Canin oh my god Whiskers that's crazy and Dolmio Dolmio you can do the past

the Dolmio Grin the Dolmio Whiskers the Dolmio Grin yeah well he was given $4.37 this man he's from Birmingham in the UK You can do the past. The Dolmio Grin. You can do Dolmio Whiskers. Oh, my God. The Dolmio Grin. Yeah. Well, he was given $4.37, this man. He's from Birmingham in the UK. Yeah.

Because he pulled into a gas station, felt like a little treat. They were probably doing a two-for-one special. Probably. They always do. They always try to push that on you. And he opened up what he thought was going to be just a regular delicious Mars bar. And it turns out, shockingly, it was perfectly smooth. I saw it and I thought, I'd eat it. That is so weak.

That's like a collector's. I know. We would sell that on eBay or whatever they use over there. I'm sure it's eBay. Whatever, yeah. They'd trade me and you'd make money. Yeah, because if you think about your Mars bar, it usually has that sort of collected swirl. Veins.

It's got veins. It's got thick, pumping veins. You know, and there's so many people said about people that will eat a Mars bar upside down. What? Did you know this is a thing? No. I always eat it veins to the roof of my mouth so some people go veins down. No, veins up.

You can go veins up too. You stumble across it. It's a joke. It's like a joke. Like, you're the sort of mate that eats a Mars bar. Oh, yeah, yeah. What are you? To feel them on your tongue.

Oh, my God. I never even thought about that. What an insult. I thought. But you want to feel the veins on the roof of your mouth. Totally. Why? Why just sort of anywhere, really? It's just the veins

anywhere, top or bottom. Yeah, top or bottom. Just veins. But Mars have a smooth bottom veiny top. I would never think I'd go upside down so I get the texture on my tongue. And then I googled it outside of the obvious filthy joke just to see if people do. And they do. It's the same people that eat like a

chop top biscuit. Oh no. They eat it chopped down. No, chock up. But no. All the way around. They eat it chopped down. No, chalk up. Yeah. But it's the bottom of the Mars bar. Is it that kind of mat?

It's like, yeah, because it's perforated. it sits on a mat. Yeah. So he opened it up and was like, what the hell is this smooth Mars bar? Took a photo of it and then sent it into Mars Wrigley UK and was like,

are you guys doing smooth Mars bars now? Yeah. And they were like, no, this is a factory era. So, you know when you see chocolate factories and they come out of those big conveyor belt things? Yes. And as it gets its top layer, air blows on it to create those... Oh, the waves.

The veins. The veins. Sorry, the Mars waves. Yeah, veins. We'll call them veins because it's not quite a wave. Yeah. More vein-esque. And they get blown with air along the top as it comes out of the waterfall of chocolate.

And there's supposed to be somebody at the end who removes the ones which haven't been hit by air. So this would happen maybe more often. Yeah, right. And then they capture them. But they take them away. And I guess that's your sort of employee tax. Smooth Mars bar. That's mine.

And I'll take that one. 2.5 million Mars bars a manade are made every single day in this one factory where this one would have come from. Oh wow. So they were like, oh my god, this one's just slipped through without its, they call, signature flourish. Right, so they apologise.

They apologise, but they've just reimbursed him the cost of the Mars bar. Or maybe a couple of Mars bars. Two pounds it was. So rude. He got two pounds. Yeah, he was like, we can't reveal all of the secrets from our production line,

but this was an error and we do apologise. So here's two pounds. And he ate it. He ate the smooth Mars bar. I would have sold the smooth Mars bar. I would have stuck it in the freezer for a good story and any time someone would come around and be like, do you want to see something crazy?

Check this out. Check this out. This is going to blow your mind. I've got a smooth Mars bar. A smooth Mars bar. And then all your friends would be like, have you been around to Hayley's? She's got a smooth Mars bar in the freezer.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. When you get to Hayley's, ask to see what's in her freezer. You won't believe it. It'll blow your mind. Play ZM's Flesh, Vaughn and Hayley. From the bustling ZM think tank, this is the Top Six. Hello there.

Rupert Grint, who hasn't been in too much since Harry Potter. Nah. He's 36 years old now, which is wild. Does that make you feel old? Is he older than me? Wow. Yeah, he was born in 1988. Wow. Yeah.

How old's Daniel Radcliffe? Is he a little bit younger? Yeah. Would you like to Google Daniel Radcliffe? Yes, I'm doing it now. Oh, he's one year. He's 35. And Emma Watson is 34. She played Hermione Granger. It's weird because those movies only came out Oh, he's one year. Yeah, he's 35. And Emma Watson is 34. Wow, okay.

She played Hermione Granger. Hermione. It's weird because those movies only came out like five years ago. Yeah, it's crazy. It was so weird that they were late 20s when they were playing those characters. Yeah, it's so weird. One of those movies literally just came out. Now, we decided the other day, I'm Hermione.

Vaughn, you are... Hagrid. Hagrid. I think it was Hagrid in the end and our listeners decided that Fletch is Voldemort

you're Voldemort wow out it's baldest and it's because I've only got half a nose yeah yeah you've got that

hollow nose situation hollow nose wow you guys always tease me about I know old hollow nose

over here unbelievable and if you could cast a spell on a baby on a plane you'd do it no doubt 100 he would always tease me about old hollow nose over here. Unbelievable. And if you could cast a spell on a baby on a plane, you'd do it, no doubt. 100 he would.

A thousand percent. He does, he tries all the time. So, Rupert Grint has been ordered to pay 3.9 million

New Zealand dollars in tax. Now, I said before, they were arguing what kind of income. He's not one of those celebrities that just didn't pay tax and they're like, I don't know about tax. Yeah, I was never raised to believe that this was something I had to do.

So it came after he was given four and a half million pounds from a company which managed his business affairs as a consideration for rights, records and goodwill from his work. He said that it was a capital asset and should be the subject of capital gains tax, which is less than an income tax. But they said no, no, no, it's income tax, so now you've got to pay more. And he's like oh, boo. Frankly, I do not want to. And frankly, it is

not there. He hasn't done anything for a couple of years really, like just quite small stuff. He's a great actor. But he's worth, apparently worth 40 million pounds. Oh, I guess I'm going to HP. Just transfer it to me now. Why would you do anything else? Why would you do anything? Yeah, totally.

You work your whole childhood, just travel. Yeah. Oh. God. What a life. Well, I've got the top six Harry Potter spells to get rid of tax issues and we can all try this at the end of the financial year if we don't want to pay tax. Okay, okay. It's only a few months away, isn't it, at the end of the financial year?

Yeah, it's sneaking up on us. Number six is Lumos. That's in the Harry Potter series to create light in a dark situation. Lumos. So you could light up your statements in that cupboard where you just kind of chuckle your receipts. Oh, yeah, mine's a paper bag. Yours is a paper bag. Mine's one of those accordion folders. Oh gosh. And I put

like 2023 on the little flap up the top and then just jam them in. Every time there's a receipt I just jam them in. Just jam it in. It doesn't sound that great. One day if you get, what's the word? Audited. Just chuck them there. Yeah, I just tip it upside down. I'm like, what year do you want?

I'm going to open that accordion and just tip it upside down. But they will need Lumos. Yeah, great. Lumos. Number five on the list of the top six ways to get rid of tax issues, Wingardium Leviosa. That's a classic. It's a levitation spell,

but I'm looking to use this figuratively to levitate my account balance so that I can pay tax. Oh, I thought you were going to levitate the tax inspectors out of your house. So they couldn't. Could use it either way. Yeah, could use it for both. Hard to issue someone a tax notice when they are floating. Yeah. And no longer subject to gravity.

Number four on the list of the top six Harry Potter spells to get rid of tax issues. Akeomani. It's a summoning spell. Okay. You could. Akeo money. It's a summoning spell. Okay. You could just summon some more money. Oh, amazing.

Not a problem that Harry Potter had to face. Nepo baby. Yeah. In the magic world, he was a nepo baby. He was, eh? Is there a cap on how much money you can akeo? Well, you don't want to cause hyperinflation.

Yeah. True. Warren's got a great point there. That's what I always think. Just print more money, print more money. Yeah. I think that's how we got into this mess. Right, is it? We've been in it in the last few years, Hayley. Yeah. True. Warren's got a great point there. That's what I always think. Just print more money, print more money. Yeah. I think that's how we got into this mess. Right, is it?

We've been in it in the last few years, Hayley. Right. We printed a bit much. Did we print too much? Yeah. Damn it. Can we recycle?

Nearly ran out of ink on the desk jet. Yeah, I got one of those notes where it's sort of like half got lines and streaks all through it. Yeah, one of those ones. And you can tell

the blue's running out. Yeah, yeah. There's a little bit heavy on the magenta. Yeah. Expelleramus is number three on the list of the top six spells to. One of those ones. And you can tell the blue's running out. Yeah, yeah. There's a little bit heavy on the magenta. Yeah. Expelleramus is number three on the list of the top six spells to get rid of tax issues. Not on the person who's coming to collect the tax, but rather on people's money. So if they've got money in their hand, Expelleramus, they drop the money, you pick it up.

Oh, amazing. Or just out of the back of their pocket in the supermarket. Expelleramus. So you have to do that to the tune of $2 million. You've been doing it for a while. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Number two on the list of have to do that to the tune of $2 million. You've been doing it for a while. Yeah. Okay.

Number two on the list of the top six spells to get rid of tax issues. Stupify. Yep. Just do that on the tax collector. No, you just stun them. Yeah, they won't know what they're doing there. And then they'll just go home. Buy a bit more time to find some more money. And number one on the list of the top six Harry Potter spells to get rid of tax issues. I mean, there's no going back

because it is one of the unforgivable curses. Avada Kedavra on the person from the tax department. Everybody from the tax department that comes knocking. They just can't keep sending people from the tax department to their certain death at your house. What's Avada Kedavra? Dead. Oh, God.

It's what Voldemort did on Harry's parents. And Harry should have died, but his mother loved him so. Yes. That it protected him. Of course, that's how he got the lightning bolt. Of course. I've seen all of the movies. And you're very familiar with the lore.

Yeah. And remember it. Of the Potter universe. Yes. That is today's top six. Play. ZM. Fletchvn and Hayley.

Jack Harlow, singer of... First Class. Great. Love this. Abuna. We can play this for a while. Great.

Great vibe. Now, apparently, I was unaware of this. I was left unawares that people did a bit of a 180 on Jack Harlow. We all agreed that he was a very attractive, handsome gentleman.

It was in that time of Post Malone where everyone liked a dirty boy. Everyone liked a dirty boy. Everyone liked a dirty, grubby little boy. And then everyone was sort of like, hang on, can we just have a little discussion? Is he too much of a dirty boy? I found a thread on Reddit, is Jack Harlow hot? And then someone kind of summed it up quite good. Yeah.

Someone said, yes, but he's like, quote, white guy from a small town in the middle of nowhere with a population of 25,000 to 50,000 who's hot from pure lack of competition, decent style and general awareness of hygiene. Ouch. Which is a brand of attractiveness that is very much my type.

Right? And you're like, oh my God, that's so spot on. Girlies, would you agree with that description of Jack Harlow? Yeah 100%. Yeah. So the reason people are talking about Jack Harlow again being like hey hang on now is that he performed

a concert with an orchestra in a three piece suit and people are absolutely swooning. Have a listen. He's doing a bit of Elvis. Oh, okay. Yeah. He did a bit of Elvis.

He did a bit of Sinatra. Oh. And he kind of had a little like swingy vibe going on. Right. So now he's hot again? So now he's hot again because, okay. All right, Shannon. Your mic going on. Right, so now he's hot again? So now he's hot again. Alright, Shannon, your mic's on. Oh, yeah.

I didn't say it like that, but the girlies are melting. TikTok has exploded over this. Because it looks like he's had a shower? Well, I think it's also unexpected. We know him from first class. He can rap. He has a little bit of a voice, but we didn't expect that level.

Sweeney crooney. Yeah. I sort of see it. He is in a really nice suit in the orchestra. That's sort of a level of class. Especially after Jacob Elordi was Elvis and that really did a lot to a lot of girls. People are just realising that Elvis was an attractive man.

Because Jacob Elordi let us know. Wait, who was the more attractive Elvis? Austin Butler or Jacob Elordi let us know. Who was the more attractive Elvis? Austin Butler or Jacob Elordi? Jacob, in my opinion, but that might be a hot take. Because Elvis is tall. He looks tall. Jacob Elordi's very tall. Let's get in that. I think they might have heightened up Elvis there.

Austin Butler's Elvis. The voice was weird, eh? Yeah, the voice was off. And he couldn't shake it afterwards He couldn't shake it He was doing his interviews Like this And he was like

What are you doing So Elvis was About six foot Okay Okay he's a tall man So we're all now loving This Elvis-y Deep voice

We love the suit Yeah Also he seemed Quite like humble Like he seemed A little bit like bashful And it's like Oh okay

I'm loving hearing What Gen Z is finding attractive Boys I love me I love me a bashful boy I love bit like bashful. And it's like, oh, okay. I'm loving hearing what Gen Z is finding attractive. Boys, I love me a bashful boy. I love me a bashful boy. Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fleshborn and Hayley. So a little while ago we talked about how my cat will only eat one sort of wet food and it's Jimbo's

and it's the yellow Jimbo's which is veal and it's the most expensive Jimbo's. And this cat was free. Yep. That's a good thing about these cats. Yeah. I mean, you paid a sort of a hostage negotiation fee for yours. Oh, yeah.

I've mentioned this many times, that to rescue my cat from a breeder. Yeah. And, you know, pay a lot of money, but now it's free. Hayley and I rescued our cats from certain death. Plastic bags. Plastic bags. Yeahastic bags, yeah. And abandonment. But all of our cats,

like you said before though, you should never give them a sniff of the good stuff. No. I don't want to eat this junk. I only want the good stuff. Rolly's been on almost the same biscuits

his whole life. That poor thing. He doesn't know anything other than when we have ham. He loves shaved ham. Because it's salty. He comes in, if he smells ham or the clack of like a

plastic container of ham being open, he's like the clack. The clack of ham. I'm here for the ham. I look forward to the clack of ham after Christmas, before New Year's. Oh my God, yes. When there's leftover ham. Tis the season. Tis the season for a ham sandwich on white bread. We digress. Sorry.

We'll talk more about ham sandwiches later. Cut it thick on the barbecue. Pineapple. Yeah, yeah. Almost like a ham steak. But ham steaks are trash, but when you make your own ham steak out of Christmas ham,

it's delicious. Yeah. We digress. I talked about how they'll only eat the yellow Jimbo's. The people from Jimbo's reached out and said, have some Jimbo's vouchers. Oh, that's lovely.

Now, they sent six vouchers. I'm on the, that's lovely. Now, they sent six vouchers. I'm on the Jimbo's website. Right. They sent six vouchers and I thought, that's nice. That's nice of them. I completely forgot about them. Oh, dear. I said to Sade, I was like, hey, next time you take shopping, on the desktop computer, print off a voucher. There's six of them. Delete

them after you print them. Oh, they only work once? Yeah, only work once. Now, the voucher said to the value of $25. Yeah. Whoa! Do they just eat them raw? What? Like this.

Well, I'm not cooking the cat raw cat food. What do you mean? You don't cook it. Well, I was just looking at it. Like, it's so full on. It's just like...

It's like, because you see them... It's meat. You see the meat. Yeah, it's just meat. Yeah, that's why the cats love it. That's good, though,

because it is just meat because you don't know what's in the other stuff, right? The veal one, it's just veal. Yeah, it's just meat. That's why the cats love it. That's good, though, because it is just meat, because you don't know what's in the other stuff, right? The veal one, it's just veal. Yeah. So it's more expensive, but at the weekend it was $12.50. Do the maths on this. Oh, that's good. Two times per voucher.

However, guess what? What? 30th of November was the expiry date on the voucher. Oh, no. Warren. Oh, no. So I was like, there's no way I'm going to be able to get 12 veels from one. I'm going to have to multi-supermarket this.

Why does it matter? You've got all the vouchers. Did the vouchers say you can only use one per supermarket? No, no, no, no, no. I was just like, there's no way they're going to have 12 things a veal. Yeah. Because it's the most expensive. Yeah.

It's very popular. Advertised as perfect for extra fussy felines. And we've got some extra fussy felines and we've got some extra fussy felines Jimbo's veal so then I go down and I'm like okay

you know what the local supermarket had 12 veals I cleaned them out of veals and then I did the other stuff just got some

dinner stuff etc etc went up to the checkout and they knew the minute I was like I've got vouchers for these

I've never worked checkout I imagine that's a nightmare I was like I've got vouchers for these oh god I've never worked checkout I imagine that's a nightmare sentence to hear yeah I've got vouchers for these I'll be like of course you do

because you look like a voucher person wait but you go to the supermarket and use a non-supermarket voucher it can be used anywhere that sells jumbos

and I read at the bottom it was like it said to the retailer and it's like yes this is acceptable just put in this code or whatever put in this receipt to these and send them to this address and we'll fully reimburse you.

Oh, what a nightmare. You couldn't go self-service checkout with that. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, God, no. No, no. I just caused a huge traffic jam in the supermarket. Oh, for God's sake. Because the person behind the till was qualified, but they

were training somebody else. So the trainee had lots of questions. Then they had to get a checkout manager. I didn't mean to. They were bouncing around packing people's groceries. But then I swiped my club card and it reduced the price of the jimbos.

Oh my God, we can get more veal. So then they said, you're like $12 shy of being able to use this voucher and you've got to use the whole voucher. Oh my God, we can get more veal. So then they said you're like $12 shy of being able to use this voucher and you've got to use the whole voucher. And I was like, well, that's confusing. I'm already embarrassed to be standing there. So then this stage I've probably been there for five minutes. The lady

behind me in the aisles, she had her grandchildren. Her granddaughter wet her pants because she'd been waiting so long. Literally weed right there on the floor. This is on you. I was like, I'm so sorry about this. Or Jimbo's don't want to be associated with that. No.

They don't want to be associated with that. So I'm like, I'm so sorry that this. And she's like, it's not your fault. You'd think they'd know how to use a voucher. And looked at the people and I was just like, oh no. So now you've. I know. I thought you were going to say it's not your fault.

You think she'd know to ask to use the toilet. There's a toilet in that supermarket. There is a toilet in that supermarket. But she was young. She was like a little kid. I felt really bad because I just weaned straight on the floor. As a parent who's been in a shop where I looked at my daughter, she went wheeze and just straight weaned on Catman to his floor.

Yeah. I was like, ugh. So then she said, if you want to use this voucher, you're going to have to spend The whole $12 The country or the store? Both Okay

She went to a Katmandu In Katmandu And weighed there Ironically They have Katmandus In Katmandu? No they only have Macpacks Interesting

Very interesting Crazy That's crazy And a Torpedo 7 And a Torpedo of course So And they said to me you've got to use

if you want to use this last voucher you've got to go and get $12 or more I was like what okay

piss on the floor it's all right there's a line forming oh my god you're a nightmare so then I say I'm so sorry and they say

just scan one of the ones that's already there and then get it later it's not it's not how it's happening. So I'm like, I'm so sorry. I'm going to have to go and get. And the lady's like.

For jimbos? For this meat tub? Which these are all free, by the way. You couldn't be like, don't worry about it. Write it off. Don't worry about it. I'll just buy one. Then I say to them, can you put this lady through?

And they're like, yeah, you know that thing they can do with you? They print off your receipt and next time all they need to do is scan the receipt and they can pick it up where they left off. So I was like, I'm so sorry. And I went down.

Duct away, avoiding the piss on the floor. Yeah. Now, far out. I go there and it wasn't $12 because I was like, I don't want to spend any more than the voucher. I'm going to have to get something. Oh, are you kidding me?

Tough times. Tough times. So then I find these dog treats that Jimbo's make, I'm going to have to get something exactly. Tough times. Tough times. So then I find these dog treats that Jimbo's make, and I'm excited about that. The dogs are going to get something out of this. And I go back up a few minutes later, and she's like, we're going to need to take you to another checkout because there's a specular in there now. Wow, so they've moved

you because you're that much of a hassle. The wet floor signs up where the kids piss on the floor. And I'm like, okay. And then the woman says, in your absence, we've read the fine print of the voucher. Oh, get out. Get out. Apparently, the checkout manager took it to the store manager. And the store manager has said, no, the voucher says one product per voucher up to the value of $25.

Oh. So I can only have one tub per voucher up to the value of $25. Oh. I can only have one tub per voucher. Okay. Not up to the value of $25. Yes, you can't fill up the $25. If you hadn't been greedy, you could have got away already with those tubs. Yeah, you could have said,

just don't worry about it. Yeah. So then I'm like, ah, okay. What? You'd think I'd just take don't worry about it. Yeah. So then I'm like, ah, okay. What? You'd think I'd just take it. Just take it and go. No, I was like, what Jimbo's product is worth $25?

And she said, I don't know. And I said, because Veal is the most expensive product back there. Yep. And it's only $12.50. Yep. How can I make the most of these vouchers? Oh, my God. Yes.

What? It's just like. Please leave. He did make of these vouchers? Oh my God. And she's just like, please leave. She's like, why don't you just use them next time you come? And I was like, expire today. And she's just like,

mm-hmm. She really wanted to swear at me. She's like, no, and to her credit, so professional the way she handled it. So wait, so after getting more jimbos, you had to then take jimbos back? I was like, no. And to her credit, so professional the way she handled it. So after getting more Jimbo's, you had to then take Jimbo's back.

I was like, so I've got six vouchers. So I'm allowed six Jimbo's products. She's like, what six do you want? And I was like, the veal. And she's like, okay, so the rest of these can go back. I was like, would you like me to put them back? And she's like, I want you to leave this effing store. When she said no and calmly shook her head, what I read in her eyes was,

I want you to get the eff out of my life immediately. I never want to see you again. Never again. Wow. Never again. So then she's like, okay. So she puts it through, scans the receipt from last time. And then I noticed it's more than it should be,

and I said, oh, I don't think the receipt's carried over my club card. Oh, my God. You are unbelievable. You a-hole. ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Today's silly little poll. Do you flash your lights to warn other drivers that there's a speed camera or cops ahead? Because this has kind of been a bit of talk on social media

in the last few weeks with some posts about this exact topic. I hate it. Some people kind of feel like it's dying out. It used to be a big thing. I just used to do it all the time to people that I judged were going too fast the other way. I'd be like, oh, you've got to slow down, mate, speed camera. And you'd see them, and then you'd look in your rear view mirror,

and their brakes go on. Yeah, you're slowing down. Yeah, I never do it. I'm like, up to you. You can do what you want. It was illegal to do it, eh? I don't know. I always remember.

I don't think it ever was. Well, I think flashing your headlights, that could be something that was... Right, yeah. Do you think this started, because I remember when we would have been at school and do you remember they had the hidden speed cameras and then they got rid of them?

Or there were signs saying, you are entering a hidden speed camera zone. Kind of defeating the whole purpose of a hidden speed camera. But then, I think they got rid of those signs, but then, yeah, if people saw a camera, they'd kind of warn, because I think people thought that was a bit unfair. Yeah.

It was a bit sneaky. Whereas, like, you go to a camera, they'd kind of warn, because I think people thought that was a bit unfair. Yeah. It was a bit sneaky. Whereas you go to, like in Australia, they hide them in like wheelie bins. Yeah. They do it good, man. They do it good. I saw it twice when I was driving back from Hamilton the other night. Cop cars, mufti cop cars.

Oh, yeah. In the dark, and they were just like out the door with one of their little speed guns. Oh, sneaky. It's really hidden. You'd never see them. But I never flash my lights. If you're going to speed, then it's up to you. and they were just like out the door with one of their little speed guns. Oh, sneaky. Really hidden. You'd never see them. But I never flash my lights.

If you're going to speed, then up to you. In the 12 months, in the 12 month period, 58 fixed speed cameras around New Zealand, 371,000 tickets issued in the last year, mostly in 2023, totaling $29.9 million.

Nice. Don't speed. Don't speed. Mill Road, Counties, Monaco has the most tickets, 2.5. Oh, yeah. And then the Waterview Tunnels. Yeah, I got a Waterview Tunnel. Nodonga Gorge, top of the gorge, that's $1.7 million in fines. And in just a year, that's like fourth on the list.

Do you know what blows my mind is you'll see it every now and then on your local Facebook page. Someone popping up being like, hey, just let everybody know there's police on the corner of Old Town Road. Yeah, there's pages. People follow them. Booze bus. There's a booze bus on the thing. Yeah, booze bus. If you're going to drink, drive, maybe take

one of those back, really windy, dangerous roads. Yeah, it's crazy when people do that. But we asked you to flash your headlights to warn other drivers, which I've just done a quick Google, really windy, dangerous roads. I don't do that. Yeah, it's crazy when people do that. But we asked you, do you flash your headlights to warn other drivers, which I've just done a quick Google, not illegal, but discouraged. Okay. 63% of people said yes, they'll do it. 37% said no, they don't do it.

Depends, says Megan. To warn them of cops, no, to warn them that their lights aren't on. Yes. Makes me feel like a real, the mayor of the road, when you flash your lights and some of that. Turn your bloody lights on, you idiot. Half an hour before sunset, half an hour after sunrise. That's the rule.

And I flash them and then they turn their lights on and you're like, that's right, the mayor has spoken. Powerful. Mayor of the road. Here in the Naki, says Danielle, it's far more common, I've found, especially for all the arsehole ute drivers out there. Ooh, okay, Sean's fine.

Wow. And not only the Naki, but also ute drivers. Yeah. If they're stupid enough to break the law by speeding or drink driving, I want them to get caught, said Rachel. However, if there's an accident, I'll flash my lights to warn and slow others down coming the other way. Yep, that's good. Fair.

Why do you want someone to get a speeding fine? Life's tough enough, says Chris. Oh. I know, but they're speeding. Yeah. Thus endangering everyone else. Nice thing to do when there's a speed camera van, says Brittany. Yeah.

Juliet, always forget how to do it and I panic and then turn on an indicator. Sarah, nice try, officer. I think they're... They're pro-warning. Yeah. Yeah, they're pro-warning and they think we're setting a trap

for them or something. Yeah. Like we're going to turn up at their house and be like, hey, knock it off. Yeah. Knock off flashing the lights.

Caitlin, I've occasionally even done it when there isn't a cop around. People in the Bay of Plenty have a lead foot and also suck at staying on the road. So, like me. Caitlin's like I.

Sometimes we just feel like the people coming the other way need to slow down so we'll make them think they're getting into a trap with the police. That's today's Silly Little Pals. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. Having just reached the end of this article, I'm finding this quite intolerable.

Now, gentle parenting... I've read something. I got to the end. I don't like it. I'm not into it. So gentle parenting, as we were talking about, it's like it's a new approach, I guess, because we grew up in the 80s, 90s. In the heyday of...

Our parents were raised by people who were raised by or came back from war and didn't know how to talk about their feelings and saw horrendous things. And then our parents were like, we're doing a far better job because we're

smacking them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. I mean, I don't... My parents were super opposite we're doing a far better job because we're smacking them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. I mean, my parents weren't super opposite of gentle, but they definitely were, you know, just quite classic 90s parents. Yeah. Like, shut up, go to your room. My mum used to call me a little witch rather than using the name, a bee. I'm sick of seeing your face, I remember that one. Yeah.

When I was sad and I'd go there, my mum would be like, don't trip up on your bottom lip. I'll give you something to cry about would have been the Smith and Krivonov. You've got no idea. And now you see it online a lot, gentle parenting, which is the thing of just like,

kids are so dysregulated with their emotions, so we just take pause. It's all about empathy and da-da-da-da-da. Well, apparently people have been softly implementing gentle parenting into their relationships, calling it gentle partnering. Okay.

Which is all about, it sort of started as people being like, hey, this is working really well for our kids and the way that we communicate with them and the way that they are understanding their emotions. And so people were sort of doing it to their partners without really telling them that that's what they were doing. There was a huge thread on Reddit being like, am I an asshole for using gentle parenting techniques on my partner

when he's feeling a little bit upset? And everyone was like, this is so patronising. This is so demeaning. But they were like, I'm getting really great results. But I can totally see why. Because I don't sugarcoat anything. Because I grew up, my parents just black and whited with each other. Like, that is that, that is that, that, that, that.

I disagree. Now we fight. Before it was just like, they would just say something like, do that or that needs doing. Yeah, right. But I realised that, oh, yeah, I've been with Shadow for 20 years and I don't sugarcoat anything.

And then it makes it sound like I'm angry and it kind of puts up, but I'm not. I'm just saying. Yeah, 100%. I'm the same. I'm like, I'm not a very gentle or empathetic fighter or disagreeer in my relationship. And people are like, you've just got to use the same things. Like, we're taking pause.

Vaughn, I can see that you're feeling really upset at the moment and I think it's probably not helpful for us to have an argument in this place so um I'm just gonna take a breath and I want to come back and we can talk about it I would just this would never be those would never be words I could say I could never do it because I just feel like I'm on the verge of breaking them yeah and I'm gonna get my way yeah I feel like I'm on the verge of breaking them. Yeah. And I'm going to get my way. I feel like we're almost there. Just a couple of more choice words. I said something I definitely shouldn't have said.

Now I'm backpedaling. Oh, my God, I should have gentle partnered earlier. I just feel like this would put me into the, I'd feel that parenting element of it. And I'd be like, don't treat me like a child. Don't talk to me like, don't try to disarm me and my anger in this moment in gentle parenting.

I want to pour gasoline on the situation and then come back very sheepishly and apologise for being such a ridiculous person. So some relationship therapists came in and were like, at its core, gentle parenting is all about empathy, patience and respectful communication. Now those

are three things that are great to have in a relationship. If you can draw on them in the heat of the moment. Hayley just rolled her eyes, but you couldn't hear that, dear listener. You couldn't hear it. Aaron heard it, I reckon, and he's not even listening to the radio station. He just knows. He can just vibe check that the eyes are being rolled. He's in bed right now being like, oh my God, I think Hayley just rolled her eyes across town.

Play ZM's Fletchbourne and Hayley. This is almost somewhat of a PSA. For those of you that will see... It's PVA. The glue. Oh my God,

this whole time we've been calling it PSA glue. Yeah, no, it's PVA glue. Oh my God, I need to stick this together. Pass me the PSA. It stands for...

No, public service announcement is what I'm making, not a poly... Polyvinyl acetate. Polyvinyl acetate. Who knew? No wonder they called it PVA because you... It's been so...

I wouldn't smear my hands with polyvinyl acetate. I know, I was going to say, it's been so long I've made a skin with PVA glue. Now, we are leading up to our holiday break, and as we know, the show usually dismantles within the last couple of weeks and we get very silly because we're excited for the holiday break. We should get some PVA in studio. That should be one thing we do.

I've got to press the button so it's not going to work for me. Could you PVA your feet? Together. Someone might pay money for that though. I was just like, and someone will pay lots of money for it. You know it's well known that microorganisms can eat PVA glue, such as algae, yeast, lichen and bacteria and fungi. What an of money for it. You know, it's well known that microorganisms can eat PVA glue,

such as algae, yeasts, lichen and bacteria and fungi. What an awesome little tidbit. No, but also, little tip of your... Oh, if you... No. Okay, so he's giving it unsolicited medical advice there. If you think you might have a bacterial infection or a thrush infection in your genitals...

PVA will eat it. Don't smear PVA in your joke. No, it eats PVA. You would effectively be feeding the thrush infection. PVA will eat it. Don't smear PVA in your joke. No, it eats PVA. You would effectively be feeding the thrush. Oh, okay. Sort of creating a super thrush. Sort of a zoo of sorts down there. All right, so get a proper cream then.

Yeah, yes please. Go to the chemist. A PSA. If you, like me, see photos of yourself and you don't like them, you're always like, oh, God. Isn't that every human on the planet? And then you find a couple that you like and you favourite it in your album. Every now and then you go back and look at it and you'll be like,

God, I used to be good looking. Oh, you cut that out. It's terrible, isn't it? You cut that out. You were never good looking. You've been a minger since the 8th of October 1989 Minger since day one baby

Day one minger So this is from a dermatologist She's a cosmic dermatologist So her job is basically, people come and they say I don't like this about myself And they'll maybe remove a scar Or some freckles or a mole or something like that Right And she has all the time people coming into her

uh clinical practice or whatever and saying like oh i noticed this in photos i noticed this in photos all the time and i said this is really pronounced in photos i've got this nobody else is no one notices your thing that you always notice nobody cares yeah and then she came up with this analogy that i thought was so good and it totally changed the way that I think about it because I'll always be like, I feel, often I'll take a photo because I'm feeling good. Yeah. And you go, oh my God, I feel good.

Or like, let's have a photo. And then you're like, oh yuck, that's an awful photo. Oh yuck. And your confidence gets crushed. She said, this is her analogy. Think of all the beautiful sunsets you've ever seen in your life. Right? And you go, oh my God.

Yeah, I love the sunsets. And then you go to take a picture of it. And when you look at the photo, you go, oh, it doesn't look as good as the sunset. It's not really doing it justice. How is that any different? You're beautiful and just because the photo isn't doing you justice,

it doesn't distract from the fact that you are very beautiful. That's minga maths right there. That's minga maths. We've got ourselves a bit of minga maths. Being like, it's actually not my face that's minging. The photo's not reflecting my true beauty. But this is true.

I do it all the time with like, we've had some beautiful moons recently and we get up lovely and early. Never does it justice. I know. And you always look at it, you're like, oh my God, that's so beautiful. And you take a photo,

it just looks like a bloody spotlight. That is because it's so far away. And you're like just there when I take a photo of you, you know what I... Yeah, so what's happening? So he's saying if you were as far away as the moon, you'd look all right too.

He's saying what we need somehow is to get you into the outer, sort of like gravitational area. I'm trying to do some positive thinking for everyone that might not like photos of themselves with a beautiful analogy of a sunset. No, that is a good way of looking at it. It is a good way of looking at it because, yeah. Do you know anyone that never looks as good as they do in photos?

As they do in real life? Do you know someone that in real life looks hot and amazing, but in photos they never look as good? Yeah, definitely. There's heaps of people like that. My dad is not the opposite. My dad's a handsome fellow, but no matter what, heaps of people like that My dad is Not the opposite My dad's a handsome fellow But no matter what

He could just be like Existing You take a photo He goes huh And he smiles Beaming Gorgeous My dad always

I don't have that If you want a genuine I can't do a genuine smile As all of our PR photos For eternity have proven When someone says And now smile And I'm just like

No I can't When they told you to Warm up your face a bit. Yeah, I was scaring off potential clients. Don't worry, AI will fix that for us soon. I don't know. Well, when it can. Yeah, please. That's when Vaughn will be smiling in our publicity photo shoot.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch Vaughn and Hayley.. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. I have never had this happen, but you know you hear stories about people connecting with people on Ancestry.com and whatnot, or whatever the other one is, 23andMe. I think that's a big one in America. Yeah. But that's never happened to me like everyone who I've seen on it and that is connected

to my family tree have just been like oh they must be someone who's related to this person that I knew I was related to and then yesterday I get a message from an old friend of mine, Catherine, who I went to drama school with when was that? Many many

years ago, 15 years ago. So she also paid 15 years ago. She also paid $31,000 $38,000 $38,000 That's right. to learn how to slither on the floor like a wave.

No one slithered on the floor like Catherine. Okay. She was a slitherer. Yeah. She was very good at it. Pancake Catherine. Pancake, yeah,

that's what they called her. Yeah. Now, I haven't really seen much of Catherine over the years because she lives in Thames and I think she protests full time. Okay. Hmm. She's a real activist. Yeah, good stuff.

Hippie through and through. We love her. No, she went to acting school, not activist school. She's got all confused. She's stuffed up, yeah. The whole time she was there, she was like, why do you keep sticking me in these costumes yeah i'm here to wave signs and play cards yeah yeah yeah anyway so i get a

message from katherine yesterday like out of the blue just saying um we're related what i was like what and she had done ancestry.com but she wasn't on there a lot and was actually going through some, like, old family photos. Like, in an old-school way, was going through family photos and started to find really old, like, black-and-white photos from the early days of New Zealand. Yeah. And so was looking through and was like, oh, yeah, Ancestry.com, and it kind of prompted her to go on.

And she was uploading photos, and it kept making all these sort of, you know how it makes suggestions? Like this person could be related to this person, this person. And eventually it led to Hayley Sproul. And she was like, what the hell? Like we've known each other since 2008, for God's sake. And it turns out that we have the same great, great grandparents. Oh, okay. Great, great grandparents. Oh, okay.

Great, great grandparents. That's not even, I mean, that's a little way back. It's not super removed. But it's not super like. So my. Like if you'd hooked up with her, that'd be okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We didn't hook up.

Totally, totally. You didn't. I did hook up with one person in my class and we were not related. Okay. So thank God. Yeah. So not Catherine though. Yeah. So not Catherine though. Yeah.

So my dad's nana is her mum's nana's sister. Okay. That was the connection that we made. And then I was like, oh my God, that's so crazy. Like we're like, whatever, whatever that is, cousins, twice removed or whatever it is. Yeah. And then she.

Third cousins? I don't know. I literally don't have no idea how any of that works. Because the removed parts where it's generational, like if you'd been one out, like it was your dad's grandmother and her great grandmother's sister or something

and that's how the once removed comes it's like the generational. Oh yeah but we're aligned Is she full noise too? Yeah she's full noise, do you know what's funny? It's so funny, like so then she went through, she was she full noise too? Yeah, she's full noise. Do you know what's funny? It's so funny. Like, so then she went through, she was going through all these old photos. She's like, oh my God, I've got like your family tree.

She's like, I can't believe I've just been living this whole time knowing you and I've got your family tree in my house and like this photo of your relative and your dad's nana and all this kind of stuff. She was looking through things and sending me all these photos of these mad women in hats. And I was like, Catherine, this is so accurate.

Mad women in hats. Catherine's one of the maddest women you'll ever meet. It's absolutely incredible. And when I told Aaron, I was like, me and Catherine Croft are related. He was like, this makes so much sense. Really? Oh, my God. It was like one of the most sort of, well, I mean, it's New Zealand.

So, you know, you're always. A few degrees of separation. A few degrees of separation. But it really blew my mind this has never happened before and so now I've got a new

cousin who I've known this whole time and I think it's really going to reconnect us it's family business I'm on ancestry.com too because I

keep getting emails saying there's a new DNA match and I just never look because I'm like if I don't know them I'm not going

to know them mine's like on my Maori side there were nine my grandma was one of nine and I've just got, the family's huge I don't really know you You were saying about how many generations

back you go, but if each one of those people had a few kids, it's a lot of people coming from that one With Christmas coming up, it's best not to dig Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. What do these people want present-wise? Yeah, exactly.

And I think we might have talked about this, but I didn't look last time. But now that they do kind of like 23andMe, they do the traits thing. Oh, yeah. Based on your DNA. Physical strength, less naturally strong. Ouch. How dare you? Ouch.

I do have higher levels of testosterone though, so maybe I've counteracted that. But you're squatting quite a bit at the moment, aren't you? Bruh. Bruh. Yeah, bruh. I've got average recovery rate for my heart. Yours would be extraordinary, right?

Mine doesn't get any faster, heart rate recovery. It's right up the top there. Wait, yours is good. How does it know this? Just on your DNA. But it also says I'm leaning more towards a morning person. Yeah, me too. And despite the fact that I work in the mornings,

I just don't believe my aunt. Yeah, same. I'm not agreeing with that. Also that I don't take naps. I mean, how did you get that from me spinning in a tube and sending it to Ireland? Yeah. That's so weird.

What, you didn't tell me that I don't take naps? Yeah. That's weird. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Hayley. Oh, are you okay? I just had a little choke. Yeah, I just need a little drink. I feel a bit dry.

You're dry? Did you sleep with the air con on again? So with the fan on, but in my hotels this weekend, I slept with the air con on. What a damn, we've got a damn fool on our hands. I know. That's amateur hour there. Amateur hour. Guys, can I take you to Europe?

You can, Vaughan, yes. Metaphorically speaking. Oh my God. Guys, can I take you to Europe? You can, Horne, yes. Metaphorically speaking. Oh, my God, where are we going, Horne? Where are we going, darling? No, we're just metaphorically going to Europe. I actually have a suitcase always ready to go. It's in the back of the car. Let's go.

No. Like, just leave your life in now. It's just a summer winter. I packed a bikini. Oh, right, okay. I'm going to freeze. Sounds like you've got a go bag ready to escape your life. Spain's where we're going.

Oh, yay. But we don't want to be in Spain. There's never been. Oh, yay. But we don't want to be in Spain. There's never been a time in my life where I haven't wanted to be in Spain. We need to be in Belgium. Belgium. Belgium. Now, that's quite a way away. Yeah.

We're originally from Belgium, you see. Oh, I see. But we're in Spain on holiday. Yeah, right. Now, our flight home has been cancelled. Yeah, right. Why has that been cancelled? Let me guess, engineering issues.

Probably. Paperwork. Bit of paperwork. So this group of strangers, they are like, well, we all need to get home to Belgium. I won't do a Belgium accent because we were just talking about Ancestry.com and no Belgium in me. So I would be racist if I did. I don't even know what a Belgium accent is either. But Frenchie?

Would you like a spicy biscuit? Do you like the Smurfs? We invented the Smurfs. Is this good Belgium? You know technically cuckoo clocks. That was us. Is this good Belgium? Slipping into dangerous. Do you like Tintin?

The adventures that... No. We did that. What? Did Tintin... Was he Belgian? Dutch. Yeah, it's...

Yeah, it's very close. It's close enough, yeah. Do you like chocolate? Oh, it's gone. I need to put on my clogs. We've got to go. You've dragged me into being racist. Sorry, okay.

I hope you're happy. Sorry. So they get home, so the group of strangers are like... I don't know. I just waited. I mean, I know you've got to... I waited in the airport too because how long is that drive? And also, that's what travel insurance is for, right?

I mean, I know it's a pain to claim it and just get a hotel and then the airline will give you a flight the next day, right? Anyway, they're in a hurry. That's a full day drive. That's 15 hours. and just get a hotel and then the airline will give you a flight the next day, right? Anyway, they're in a hurry. So they're like, that's a full day drive. That's 15 hours. Okay, that's,

I thought it might be more because you could, someone could always be driving. It's Europe. Because that's what they did. Trains. Yeah. But maybe, maybe there were. I don't know.

I don't know. I can't explain it. So these strangers are like, let's all pull together in a van. Yes. And drive. And we'll just, when you all pull together in a van and drive. And we'll just, when you get tired, the next person can drive

and we're going to get home. They got home. This happens in America a bit. Best friends and now they all own a cuckoo clock factory. This happens in America a lot. In fact, it's a premise for movies. Yeah, yeah, totally. A couple of Christmases ago it happened in America.

And they drove cross country and like the literal van you're imagining when you think of an American van one of those big Ford Courier things from like Planes, Trains and Automobiles or the mum from Home Alone gets in one with John Candy. Oh god I just wouldn't. One of those sorts of vans. I just absolutely couldn't with strangers

it's punishing and I'm such a people pleaser I'd feel the need to make sure everyone was having a good time. What about sometimes when airlines cancel flights, they put strangers like sharing a hotel room? Would you do that? Like two separate beds? Never in a thousand years. Every now and again, a news story like that will hit the headlines.

Oh, no. I mean, obviously people, they have to agree to it because there's only so many hotel rooms. Oh, listen to this. I was flying from Auckland to Napier on the last flight of the evening and it was cancelled. I got talking to an old lady and we went halves in a hotel room near the airport, then grabbed a flight in the morning

together. How interesting. Yeah, see, I told you that happens. Yeah. Oh my God, I couldn't. They chose to though. Yeah, well that's the thing. It's an option, isn't it? Yeah. Oh God. If the airline was like, oh, you're in, what do they call those rooms? Twin chairs? Yeah.

Where there's two beds, but they're in the same room. And the person starts snoring. Yeah. Oh, I couldn't. With Barry. I don't want to be with strangers. You're in with Barry. Well, this is what we wanted to know this morning.

What have you ended up doing with strangers? Yeah, you always find yourself in these odd situations. Or something goes wrong. Like if you went on a tour. Because we did a tour when we went to Gallipoli, my mum and I, we did an Aussie New Zealand tour,

and you're in this van with strangers, and we were really upset because we said kia ora to a guy that was clearly Maori and he ignored us. Oh, okay. Are you sure he was Maori?

100%. Was he Turkish? People always think Sade's Maori and she's not. No, no, no, he was 100%. I think you wanted him to be Maldi. And you're mining Cliff Curtis and you're just like...

Cliff Curtis, he was from Iran. But you do, you get into these situations with strangers. If something went wrong, you're like, oh yeah, these are the people. These are the people that I would be stranded in Gallipoli with. Who I'm trapped in an elevator with now. It's weird. Going on a van with strangers is weird. They were literally going to be in a plane with now. By the way, it's weird. Oh my God. Going on a van with strangers is weird. They were literally

going to be in a plane with way more strangers. It is weird when you put it like that. Yeah. I got stuck in a lift on New Year's one year,

like years and years ago and we were going up the casino but not in the big Sky Tower but in the Sky Cities casino and we were in there for over an hour. It was awful

and we were in there because it was too heavy so it was so many of us and when we finally got to the casino we did all go have a drink together. That's pretty cool an hour. It was awful. And we were in there because it was too heavy. So it was so many of us. And when we finally got to the casino, we did all go have a drink together. That's pretty cool. God, it was awful. Because you bonded and made friends together.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Okay, well, 0800 DALS at Amazon. Give us a call. You can text through 9696. What did you end up doing with strangers? We want to know what you've done with strangers. Yeah.

Kind of forced into it. A group of strangers had to all hire a bloody van to drive from, where was it, Spain to Belgium? Yeah. Screw that. Absolutely not. I just hit my ankle bone. Anonymous, what did you end up doing with strangers?

So I did Camp America back in 2005. Oh, yeah. And a little storm came along called Hurricane Katrina. Heard of it. Tiny, tiny. Tiny storm. Yeah. And I had just arrived in New Orleans.

Oh, jeez. And we realised how bad it was going to be and I was travelling with two other girls who were a bit younger than me and they got quite freaked out. I think being from Wellington, I'm like, oh, you know, they're blowing it up.

It'll just be a big storm. It'll be fine. Yeah. Anyway, so we hired a big SUV and we went to pick it up at one o'clock in the morning because that's when it was due back. When we got there, no one was bringing cars back. There was like 200 people waiting for like 50 cars. So I don't know.

I was kind of giddy. It was in the middle of the morning and I ended up turning to the sky. I'm like, look, do you reckon if I shot a bit of cleavage or a bit of leg, you know, I was kind of giddy. It was in the middle of the morning and I ended up turning to this guy. I'm like, look, do you reckon if I showed a bit of cleavage or a bit of legs, you know, I might jump the line? And this guy goes, he could come with me. And I'm like, oh no, it's all good.

He goes, actually, look, I'm legit. I'm a fireman from Virginia. We're here on like a conference. Say no more, say no more. Yeah. So we literally jumped in with these four guys we'd never met. They were amazing.

Firefighters? Were they all firefighters? It was a huge convention in New Orleans at the time. This is actually how a lot of Hayley's audio smart books start. Jeepers, you've just ignited a new premise in me. So we had this SUV. We had the tiny seats at the back and the three of us there, and we drove all the way from New Orleans to Washington.

Oh, wow. Which is like 20 hours. To escape the storm. Oh, my God. Was it fun? Did you get on? Yeah, they were amazing. It was, you know, real different to us because they couldn't believe we were traveling the world.

They were similar age to me. I was 24 at the time. And they, you know, they were married and had kids and were just, you know, and they like, they'd even been out of their own state. They had to own a passport. So they were just like, this is crazy that you girls are doing this all on your own.

Wow. But when their wives rang, we had to be quiet because they're like, even that's bullshit. Wow. You shut your mouth back there. Yeah. Oh, amazing. An shut your mouth back there. Oh, amazing. Anonymous, that's incredible.

Thank you for sharing. It's so good. Keep your tickets coming in, 9696. What did you end up doing with Complete Strangers? What did you do with Complete Strangers is the question we want to know. There was a group that hired a van, drove across countries. Megan, what did you do with Complete Strangers? Can you hear me all right?

Yeah, we can. Yes, we can hear you. You can hear me. Clem Fandango. So when I was living in London and I was going on a tour thing, a sail crisis. Yeah. On my way to the airport, I was at Canstead Airport, which is not the greatest airport in the best times, and I met this chick.

We kind of were looking at each other as we were getting off the train, and then we sort of walked up to the same chick in the air, and then we started talking. She was Australian. She was traveling, and we started chatting, and she turned out she was going on the same tour, and we were going on the same dates, blah, blah, blah. And then her bag was overweight and I thought I've got space in my bag put some stuff in my bag if you want I'd literally known her about 10 minutes and then we went through security and we got a copy and then they evacuated to Sand City Airport because of a suspicious baggage item. Oh, please tell me

it was you. Oh, no. Please tell me it was not. Oh, God. And then I was like, and I just straight up said, have you just Chappelle Corbyn'd me? Like, what is in your bag? I didn't even look. Like, she just put all these packing cells. Oh, my God, Megan. Oh, but she was no wait. She was using packing cells. She's a sensible person.

Very sensible person. Yeah. No, you use packing sales when you're smuggling drugs. You don't want your heroin mixing with your marijuana. Yeah, that's right. You've got to keep them separated. She's got to be separated from your cocaine. But anyway, so that was fine and we'd already gone through security so they evacuated us all and

took us all around all these back exits. We had to go right through the beginning but it turned out it wasn't my bag that was suspicious. She was all good. And we're still friends now. Oh, my God. Oh, that's cool. Don't ever do that again, though.

Take on someone's staff and put it in your luggage. You don't know her. It was not my finest moment. But at the time, you know, you're excited. You're like, oh, for eight days on South Croatia. And you're just thinking about the vibe. Yeah. Some not sensible vibe.

And still friends to this day, that's cool. That's really nice. It is. It's amazing. I've made lots of friends through her as well and yeah, so it's great. Amazing. Sometimes take a risk. Maybe you calculate a risk. You know what? There's no such thing as strangers, just friends we haven't met yet. Oh wow.

We've already, the calendar is full. All people trying to make us mule drugs in our suitcase. Except for the guys offering lollies if you jump on their van. Megan, thank you. Some messages in. When I was a flight attendant, passengers used to

ask me how to get places and if it was my last flight, I'd often just drive them there. I'd say, just wait out in front of the airport. I'll come and pick you up. One New Year's, I took them to our New Year's party and exposed all my friends to foreign strangers. We had a great time. Oh, my God. Fun.

I love that. Yeah. I got stuck in the lift at the Sagrada Familia. Never finished. And lazy. Lazy. Hurry up. I'm always napping.

How long do you need? Oh, let's go for a nap. I know. People keep on saying to me, like, is your house finished yet? I'm like, what about Sagrada Familia? Yeah. It's been going for years. 600 years.

We're in the lift with six people. Two guys decided to play I Spy to keep us sane. See, that would drive me insane. Yeah, I'd be like, shut up. How about we all just take quiet time for a little bit. And also, once you've done B, like, what else is left in the lift, you know? Yeah, exactly. H.

Handle. Yes! Your turn. I would have called it a rail. No, but you got it. It's a handrail, but I got it. Yeah, handrail. Hey, I'm in the lift at Sagrada Familia.

I spy with my little eye, something beginning with C. Catholics. It's church. You can't see the church. You're in the elevator. Oh, yeah. Well, the church technically is the elevator. Is the elevator. Is the church. You're in the elevator. Oh, yeah. Well, the church technically is the elevator. The elevator is the church.

Listen, I love this. Long story short, I was stood up on a date. Group of gals next to me cottoned on to the situation. I ended up going on to their full-blown hen's party, and I'm still friends with them to this day. Oh, that's cool. Here's another hen's one. Arrived at my private venue for my hen's do,

and they bloody double-booked us with another hen's party. The other bride and I took one look at each other, nodded, knew we were in for a good night, split the venue, split the costs and had the best party with lots of strangers. Oh my God, fun. Oh, that's cool. My 23-year-old son made friends

with an 81-year-old guy named Barry in a hospital ward last year. They text each other all the time and still keep in touch. Oh, that's cute. That's really cute. I'm sure Barry really appreciates it. Barry.

Texting. Barry. Barry, yeah, that's pretty amazing. 81 and sure Barry really appreciates it. Barry. Texting. Barry. Barry, yeah, that's pretty amazing. 81 and texting. A lot of thumbs ups. It's just thumbs ups. And a lot of selfies. How are you?

Okay. Play ZM's Fletchborn and Hayley. Now, you may be familiar with the fact, if you're a long-time listener of the show, that I didn't go to the dentist for about 13 years. Yeah. Because I didn't want to get told off. Yeah, I didn't want to get told off for not wanting to pay for a proper crown

and just living with a temporary crown. And then it broke in half five years later. And then eight years after that, I slipped getting off a bus at a wedding and I punched myself in the face. And it cracked a tooth. So I had to go in. But the dentist was lovely. Of course.

One of those good ones where you're like, phew, I didn't get told off. Even though I totally deserve to be told off for this terrible adulting. But most of them are like that. Yeah, I know. They're always like, we never judge. So I- Sometimes they love I haven't been flossing. Oh, yeah, I know.

Yeah. Because it turns out you can't just floss a week before you go to the dentist. They know. No, they know. And they actually know I'm a very good flosser. I was complimented on my flossing regime. Okay. Yeah.

So I had to go twice last week, one for an x-ray one day, just to make sure everything's still in order. And then the next time I went, they took a mould of the tooth. Yes. And then that's been sent away to be worked. But anyway, when I went in the first time, I was like, it's a very calm space. Yeah.

And I took note. Does it have a television on the wall? No television. And even in the part where you're lying back on the chair, no television on the roof. Yeah, we don't have one either. Is it a dotty? I will say they're not paying for Spotify premium.

Oh, really? Get the ads. Wow. We get the ads. I thought, yeah, you guys are doing okay. Why don't they just listen to the radio? My dentist listens. My dentist will be listening right now.

Good morning, Lumino, Mount Eden. Well, I think they don't listen to the radio, especially our show because we laugh out louder and the person will have a mouthful of dental apparatus and they'll start laughing and choke on the little suction machine. That's right. Can't have that. So on my second visit, I said to the girls in reception,

I said, do you know what? Everybody that works here has the loveliest voices. Nice, soft voices. Right. Very relaxing voices. You don't want to go there and say, hey, man. And one of the girls on reception said, I've actually been told I should work at radio.

I said, well, calm down. That takes more than just a nice voice. That's actually a very- I was going to say you can't just walk into it, but I did. It takes a very particular set of skills. And I said, no, I think yours would be better. more than just a nice voice. That's actually a... I was going to say you can't just walk into it, but I did. It takes a very particular set of skills. And I said, no, I think yours would be better.

Your voice is an audio book voice. Oh, yeah. Like a nice, relaxing audio book voice. And so then I also, then when I went up to the dentist and the dentist assistant, I said, again, I was like, do you know everybody that works here has just got the most lovely,

calming voices, you two included. Oh, it's getting a bit full on. Let's get going. The compliments are getting a bit full on. Let's get it done. Right, okay. So then it begins.

The one where they took the mould of the teeth, I've got lots of questions about this. Yep. I've got lots of questions about everything in the dentist. It's like they put in that putty kind of stuff and then it hardens. And then this thing over the top and push it in. So they did that for the tooth. And then they took that off and then they ground down the tooth, the temporary crown, and left like a little peg.

And I ran my tongue around that and I was like, oh, that feels weird. And then it was at that stage I said, now what would you like me to do with my tongue? This is weird. It's a great question to ask in all sorts of circumstances, but maybe not the dentist. I don't think there's a better time to ask, what would you like me to do with my tongue?

Have you ever accidentally licked their finger? Yes. 100%. And you feel it and you're like, I hate myself. Get me out of here. I'm licking their finger. I'm licking their finger. Stop, stop.

Or when you're like trying not to swallow, then you're like. Yeah. During that, the tongue's got to move as well. Yeah, I know. It's awful. And I said, because I was, when they were in there the first time,

I was like, I was trying to get it out of the way. And she said, we did notice. At one stage it was hanging out the other side of your mouth. Why did you do that? Just relax. I was trying to give them more room. I said, I was trying to give you as much room as I could. Don't ask for more room if they need it.

You just leave it in there. Just leave it. You just go there. Open your mouth. Don't think about the tongue. And I said to the dental assistant, I said, I apologise to her. I stuck the tongue right in the sucky bit at one stage.

Oh, when you like start, it's like this and you start tonguing it? Yeah. It was coming in sideways and I went. And I think I got the tip of her finger. Oh my God, it's the worst. So that was weird. And she said. Wait, so you said to them. What do you want me to. Oh my God, it's the worst. So that was weird. And she said-

Wait, so you said to them, what do you want me to do with my tongue? That's, yeah. It's too much. And she said, you can do whatever you want with your tongue. And then we all realised that it was quite a funny thing to say. And so I was like, I'm just going to push it to that side again. Just leave it. You don't put it out.

You don't, you just leave it there. Stop chucking it all the way to the side. That's right. This is how, so the tooth is on my left. So I was going hard tongue right like this. No, just have it down. You're actually putting it in the way more when you do that. Yeah, because you're raising it with all the tension.

No, just relax it. I can't. And then I said to her, I was like, now that I've thought about it, I'm not going to not be. It's like your tongue's just there the whole time. Now that I say to you, listeners, think about how heavy your tongue is.

Immediately you realise what a beast you've got in your mouth. It's like thinking about swallowing. It's just weird, eh, when you actually have to think about it. Can I read a funny text? Yep. So someone told us a story about their daughter going to the dentist. My daughter was 14, had a euphoric reaction to the injection at the dentist.

We all found out when the dentist said, I'm just going to paint this stuff on your tooth. And she says, yeah, paint me like one of your French girls. Followed by, this is what it would be like walking on the moon. And look at me. I'm a jellyfish. Bloop, bloop, bloop. And then tried grabbing the sucky thing and singing into it like a microphone.

I want that reaction. I want that reaction to the injection. She thinks she got the laughy gas, right? Master had the laughy gas. Anyway, just relax the tongue. Just don't do anything with it. She said, and I quote, I'm allowed to do whatever I want with it.

Put it wherever I like. So I'm going to put it here. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Hayley. Okay. So I've been on a few roadies recently, and I was in Hamilton on Thursday, you may remember. Yeah. It was Seven Days Live.

And I drove back late at night with my friend Shari. And somehow we had a bit of a, one of those like odd playlists on that was jumping from genre to genre to genre on the iHeartRadio app. It was fantastic. Ding that bell. It's a KPI. KPI just tipped.

It's a slightly higher bell. Yeah. Than our hot person. Anyway, I don't know how we got there, but Nickelback came on the playlist and I'm never mad. Okay. I pretend I'm like, oh, how embarrassing.

But they were like, we're not skipping it. Nickelback, Creed, those bands were like, oh my God, great song. Anyway, I don't know how this hypothetical came up, but we were talking about like, if you ever got to see Nickelback live, would you see them live? And I was like, oh my God, yes, it'll be such a great concert. It'll be so fun. And then for some reason,

the conversation changes often does late at night with girls, to a hypothetical scenario that if Chad Kroger, Kroger? Kroger. Kroger. If you met him, you ended up backstage,

and if he wanted to hook up with you, would you do it? Because it's a good yarn. Not because you'd find, you don't find him particularly, he's not your type. He's not my type To those that celebrate, well done

Well he was Avril Lavigne's type How long were they married for? A little while But I was like, what a great scenario Like the lead singer of Nickelback Would be such a good yarn And then I started picturing the whole thing of me turning up to work on Monday And being like, Fletch, Vaughn, guess

What? I got a great break for the show at 10 past eight. Yeah, so you know how- Would it be a 10 past eight break? Oh, 100%. I'd be like, you know how I went to that concert? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I hooked up with Chad Kroger from Nickelback.

I reckon he'd make everyone sign an NDA. Yeah, but I'd dance around it. Right, okay. I'd give you just, I'd tell you guys everything. Yeah, you would. But on air, I'd give you just enough detail that I legally was not criminalising myself. Anyway,

I, then we started going through this whole hypothetical about what about this? What if like, not the lead singer but the drummer of this band? What about this?

What about this? The roadies. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just to be like, that's true. It was funny, I got backstage. Okay, what about backup dancers?

Yeah, yeah, great. 100%. Yeah, backup dancers can be hot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to Troye Sivan tonight. He's got some of the hottest backup dancers. Imagine. Something tells me they're not looking at me.

I was going to say, I just, I didn't quite know how to break it to you, Han. I wouldn't be offended if they're not. If I don't hook up with one of Troye Sivan's dancers tonight, it's not me, it's them. Anyway, so then we were talking about this and we actually put up a question box for our listeners. Have you hooked up with someone just for like a good story? Amazing. For the yarns? Amazing.

You can text message in now. We're not taking calls on this though. But if you want to chuck a text in. Oh yeah, feel free to. Absolutely. Somebody messaged, I was travelling in America and I met one of the real housewife's sons. Great. Carwin's face is...

Are the sons on the show at all, though, Carwin? Or he'd just be dropping his mum's name? No, no, no. They appear on the show most of the time. Okay. That's wild. Went home with him for the story. That's so good.

But it's underhanded, isn't it? Because it's like, they're not hot, it was just a story I wanted. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Ex high school bestie was awful to me so I hooked up with her ex. Good times, weird guy in the end. Just to

say you had done it. Just a story of it. I got her back and then of course it gets back to her, doesn't it? Slept with an all blacks brother so I could claim it. And then, of course, it gets back to her, doesn't it? Slept with an all-blacks brother so I could claim it. Wasn't worth it. It's not even claimable. Also, it probably wasn't even his brother. Oh, 100%.

Probably just had a kind of look like him. Probably just had cauliflower ears. And he's like, no, this is a family thing. Yeah. This is genetics. We get this genetically. Oh, my God, this is so good. Anonymous, please.

Name has been cut off. Daycare teacher here. Slept with one of the dads just for the staff room gossip. That's so good, anonymous please, name has been cut off. Daycare teacher here, slept with one of the dads just for the staff room gossip. That's so good. So you'd be the subject of the gossip or you had gossip for the staff room? Well, you'd probably be like, I've got the goss. Yeah.

Oh my God. I'm assuming that like the guy was with, still with his girlfriend or wife, right? Oh, I don't know. I don't know. Could have been a hot, solid dad. Yeah. Someone just, can you, I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Could have been a hot, solid ad. Yeah. Someone just, can you, I mean, I don't think we can say that one.

Someone's just texted him. A very, very, very famous rapper. I reckon we can say it. Because they're internationals. They're never going to hear about this. Busta Rhymes. In Dunedin. Busta.

Oh, my God, you would, wouldn't you? 100%. You'd just be like, oh, my God, 100%. Busta Rhymes. Busta Rhymes God, you would, wouldn't you? 100%. You'd just be like, oh my God, 100%. Buster Rhymes. What a story. Hey guys, how was your weekend? So good. I sleep with Buster Rhymes.

At the Scenic Circle. Yeah, great. A lovely spot. Raps very fast, but... Didn't have the mouth control. Oh, it's so good. I mean, it's your body, your choice. Why not?

My friend and I, my friend and I. Okay. And I slept hooked up with a well-known member of the Nitro Circus. What did I mean? The ringmaster. Thanks, you said it. Somebody, Buster Rhodes was at the Scenic Circle Hotel in Dunedin. Because that's the greatest place to stay in Dunedin.

It's where we stay. He knows his places to stay. We've stayed there. He knows about his hookup hotels. Wow, the Scenic Circle, great. Nitro Circus, I don't know if that's worth a yarn. I don't know that I'd be like, whoa, what? I don't know who it was, but they were...

Every time you'd be taken into a monster energy drink. I was going to say 100% they would have been wearing a monster energy cap. You'd look at your mate and you'd be like, whoa, what? I don't know who it was, but they were... Every time you'd be taken into a monster energy drink. I was going to say 100% they would have been wearing a monster energy cap. You'd look at your mate and you'd be like, remember that time? I don't know, remember that time, but I don't know what happens next. Oh, God, we can't read that top one, but there's quite a few people hooking up with people just for a great yarn. Just for a great yarn. This person says what they did and then yes, it was just a serene,

yes, I'm a POS and I'd have to agree you are. Oh my God, that top text, they hooked up with a very, very famous homosexual singer, but this is a woman texting him. How do you know

that it's a woman texting him? Oh, also he might be gay now. He might be gay now. Dude, he's been gay from the start. I thought he was gay from the get go. Yeah. I thought he was gay from the get-go. Yeah.

I thought he was gay out the gate. Yeah. Oh, wow. Okay. Interesting. Well, thanks for that. A friend of a friend slipped with David Schwimmer for the story. What?

Everyone's asking for a spillover, Little Pod, but we can't say some of these names. No, you can't. No, the internet's the world west. I think we can do it if we want. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Play ZM's Fletch, Vaughn and Hayley. Truce of Unplaying Auckland tonight.

We'll be there. And well behaved. We're going to be very well behaved. Unlike at Florence and the Machine. I was just... You mentioned his... Oh, dear you. You mentioned his backup dancers. Yes. And now I was just, you mentioned his backup dancers.

Yes. And now I'm reading an article about the backup dancers. And there's Instagram links to all the backup dancers if you'd like me to forward on this article. Well, I feel like tonight is one of the most appropriate nights yet to wear my harness. Remember I bought that leather harness. I've only ever worn it once.

I feel like if I'm not going to wear just Troy Savant, where am I going to wear this harness? Fair call. But it's black. It's a black harness. What does it mean? There might be a few harnesses in the... Don't the colours have codes?

Can I just wear jeans and a nice t-shirt? This guy, one of the gayest concerts ever, and he's like, can I wear jeans and a nice top? I was like, I want to wear some lace and a harness. You've got to wear a harness somewhere. If it's underneath, that's fine. I'll wear my harness. You'll know you're wearing your harness.

I'll wear my harness, but you can slip it on halfway through. Okay, great. Right now, though, time for a hell of a night for the arborists. The arborists will all be wearing their safety harnesses. No, they're different harnesses. Those carabiners are used for something different. What are those? The ones that are not weight rated for hanging a tree.

Should I go in abseiling harnesses and be like, I'm so sorry, I got the wrong end of the stick. Everyone said it was harness core. We've got to wear harnesses. All right, it's time for... Fact of the Day. Day, day,, the man. Okay.

Walt Disney. And today's Fact of the Day to kick it off is, do you know Walt Disney invented the ratings for ski slopes? What? What? What? Walt Disney. So after Walt Disney Land and Walt Disney World, the next thing he wanted to open was a Walt Disney Mountain Ski Resort.

Okay. I knew that. He wanted that to be the next thing. It never ended up happening. But if you go into the Magic Kingdom and if you take the Keys to the Kingdom tour at the Magic Kingdom, you'll learn about the fact that he wanted to do one and there's a map of the proposed ski thing on the wall

which has the official rating scales of ski slope difficulties. Green circle's easiest, blue square more difficult, black diamond most difficult and two black diamonds, double black diamonds, extreme terrain. Yep. And he was the one that invented it.

Why? So there was just nothing before then? No, there was nothing before then. It was like good luck. The National Ski Areas Association was kind of being pressured to come up with something. And he was like, well, I've got this plan for a thing and I'm going to do it. And they were like, we like that.

We'll all start using it. And so is that used worldwide? Yeah. Even though he never got a ski resort opened. What would a Disney ski resort be like? Expensive. Yeah. And all the staff are like scanning your passes on the chairlift

but they're dressed like Mickey Mouse. Frozen themed. Yeah. You think about your Disney, your classic Disney things that involve snow. Frozen. You could have some Star Wars. Snow White.

Snow White. Is that Disney? Yeah, but she was never in the snow. No, but she always looked cold. Her name is Snow White. Yeah, I know, but you said things that are Disney related to snow. There's literally a character called Snow White. Yeah. You don't think that

100% Snow White's gonna be at a snowy Disney resort, you dumbo. She lived in the forest. It doesn't matter. Her name is Snow White. I know her name's Snow White. It's literally Snow in the name. You're not even gonna think twice. What do you think kids are gonna turn up and be like,

well, technically she lived in a forest. God, you think kids are going to turn up and be like, well, technically she lived in a forest. God, you're an idiot. Hey! We have Snow White at the Disney snow resort. This guy. I know.

It's a punish working with him. Just a big thickie. What are Disney-related things to snow? And then barf at me when I say Snow White. It was her name and she had nothing to do with the snow. God's sake. Other than the fact her name was Snow. Oh, my God. Yeah, wow.

Snow White's ice cream parlor. Don't try to make sense of it. She's just going to be there. Some drama school graduate. She'll be freezing. And she was only ever worn a little short sleeve top. Oh my God. You'll have a little polyprop, a white polyprop,

because her skin is so white. She is as fair as snow. Is that how she got her name? I've never thought how weird it was that her name was Snow White. It's a weird name. You're just racking me up at this point It's a weird name I've never met anybody called Snow

Last name White Last name Well Snow's a surname there I don't know if you really want to hang your coat on that one Stop pulling it apart She's there in the snow Because her name is Snow White And I'll be like what are you doing here

Someone just text in She's called Snow White because her skin is Snow White. And I'll be like, what are you doing here? Someone just texted and she's called Snow White because her skin is white as snow. We know. Yeah, I know, but she's got no place in the snow. She'd freeze. She's used to a more temperate climate. That forest. We know.

Almost look like a rainforest. So today's fact of the day, and the first for Walt Disney week, is that Walt Disney, the man, you know what? There's probably someone working for him but he was pretty happy to go out there

and totally take the credit. Take the, the modern ski slope scale difficulty. Fact of the day, day, day, day,

day. Play ZM's Flesh, Fawn and Hayley. Oh God, I can imagine this would be very difficult. There is a woman, her name is June, she's 26 years old. Her name is June and she's 26? Yeah. That's an old lady's name. Oh, I quite like June.

I do too. And I could probably imagine it's making a resurgence, but you think 26 years ago. 1998, baby June. Yeah, that would have been quite left field. Very left field. June Carter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally.

Well, June, she met a man, and they were very good friends for a long time. And soon after they met, she realised that she was developing feelings for this guy, right? And she was like, oh my God, he's everything. I'm attracted to him. He's funny. We get on.

But they had developed this friendship. And they really were like there for each other just as friends. And so she was like, oh, super in love with him basically, but never spoke of it. And just as she was about to say to him like, hey, I think my feelings for you are stronger and something else. He met someone else, right? And she was like, that's okay, you know, if it's meant to be, it'll be. He's dating this person. Problem is, after a few years of dating this person that he met,

they got engaged. And now they're best friends, June and this guy, and she has to go to the wedding and watch him marry someone else. And she's like, I know that this is my soul mate and i should have acted earlier and she's just should have acted earlier maybe april or may ever since you didn't understand why snow white would be at a disney snow

snow park i just can't understand you but she did she said it was awful she was at this wedding being like there he is. It's the man of my dreams. This is my soulmate. We're so close. She's talking about this, I'm assuming, online. Online, on Reddit. Yeah.

Oh, okay. So on Reddit. Because I imagine it might have been a TikTok where she's like kind of outing herself. No, no. This is just a Reddit thread. He still wouldn't know. Yeah. And so she's saying his fiance is wonderful.

No reason to believe that, you know, she's not right for him. I wish I could hate her. Yeah. But how painful it is. And she was like, he's the one that got away and I've had to like stand by

and watch it because I didn't... She should have said something. Didn't say anything. And what could have been and all those feelings and she's so confused. It's awful. And he might not even be into her at all.

Oh, totally. I know, but then maybe if she had said something, then he would have just been like, I don't feel that way. And they could have just moved on. But it's this like unresolved feeling of the one that got away. And this is what I want to ask. Oh, someone said snooze you lose. Wow, jeepers. I mean, it's true though.

Empathy and compassion coming through. But it's true though. Love that empathy and compassion coming through. But it's true though, isn't it? Totally. If you don't act on it. Junes you lose. Yeah. Stop trying to make that a thing. It's not, yeah.

Well, I think one joke was already too many. Junes you lose. Yeah, Junes you lose. This is what I want to ask this morning. Who was the one that got away? What happened? And how much did it hurt? Did you have to watch them go and live the life

that you thought was your life with him or her? Sometimes people, they get them back. They might divorce in a few years and she could get in there. Get in there! Well, snooze you lose. Yeah, snooze you lose. And she could get the one who got away.

I know, but you can't be there waiting for your best friend's marriage to implode so you can get in there. You've got to go live your life. But I'm sure we'd have all stories like this. I want you guys to remember this tonight at Troye Sivan when the dancers are dancing, you know. They could be the one that got away.

Could be. You grab them by the harness and you can just... You grab them by the harness and you carabiner it to your harness and you never let them go. But I had maybe a sort of a similar situation. I sort of fell in love with someone when I was like 18, 19 and then we went to London together and then I came home and he didn't.

And it was definitely for a few years it was like, oh man, that was like a bit sad. And sometimes we talk about it now, we're like, oh, that's a bit sad, eh? Wait, who talks about it now? Us. We're friends. You and the person? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, I thought you meant like you and your fiancé, Aaron. No, I don't. Why would I let him in on that information? That would be horrible for him to hear. He's going to say, you were like, when we were 18. And I was like, didn't you start seeing Aaron when you were like 19? No, 21, when I met Aaron.

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so you were allowed to hear it in the morning. No, no, no, I'm friends with this person now, but there was, for some years, definitely that thing of like, oh. Is he the one that got away? Yeah, like maybe that was a thing, you know, and then. Okay, well, 0800-DARLS-IT-M, we want to take your calls.

Maybe you can text in anonymously, 9696. Who was the one that got away? What happened? Now, someone messaged in being like, did Hayley just say that Aaron was her rebound? No. I did a lot of bouncing around in those three days between London boy and my fiance.

There she is. But you had, early on, you had one that could have been the one that got away. Maybe. And this woman that's gone viral on Reddit went to the one that... What she thinks is her soulmate's wedding and had to watch him get married because she didn't act when she felt it the first time.

Could you even go to the wedding? If that's how you felt about him, you wouldn't want to see that, would you? No, probably not. I'd make up an excuse. Yeah. No, I can't, but I wish you best... But they're like best mates, so you have to. And she thinks she feels that way, but then if he's like,

okay, it's off and I'm all for you, she'd be like, oh, it's a bit needy. Yeah. You know how a woman be? I do know how a woman be. A woman be crazy. We've got some amazing messengers in. Messengers?

Messengers. Messengers. My book, first, this is quite a touching one. Okay. This music in the background Doesn't really suit Do you have some touching music? No I just No music's probably better than that

Okay Okay My first boyfriend Just feels a bit raw He feels too raw This is about to get raw My first boyfriend and I Were together for three

Not the right music Three years That's not the vibe That's not the vibe DJ pull it down It's not the vibe Sorry Karen Sorry

Sentimental? Yeah Moving Oh moving Sentimental That's not the vibe. DJ, pull it down. It's not the vibe. Sorry, Karen. Sorry. Sentimental? Yeah. Moving. Oh, moving. Sentimental. What about moving music? Women are so funny.

Someone once told me I was the one that got away. Ooh, block. My boyfriend and I, we're together for three years, did all the firsts together. In the end, we split at 19. He moved on. I moved on. We kept in touch over the years

between partners. He had a kid. I had a kid. I always thought about him. He always checked in on me. Sadly, it was in a car accident and passed away.

See why the music wasn't appropriate. I always believed we were soulmates and I wish I could have listened to my gut and just tried again a little bit harder.

Oh my God. That what could have been. It's so sad. G'day, guys. Alex here. Met the most beautiful and kind chick on Tinder. After three amazing dates, she told me she didn't want a relationship at the time. It's been five years and I still think about her.

Aw. Well, g'day, mate, to you too. G'day, mate. G'day, Alex. Get out there and meet the next one. Yeah. Find her again. Oh, she might not be single anymore.

There was a guy at high school that I had a massive crush on for years. We both knew there was something there, but he was a Jehovah's Witness. And he admitted he could never be together until I was part of the church. We are now both happily married, but we bump into each other.

I've fallen for that. You join the church and they don't even want to be with you. No, I know. But now you're in the church. Yeah, and you can't escape. We bump into each other throughout the years. God's army's just got the years and I can tell

that we both always still wonder. Oh. Wonder like what was that? Keep your texts coming in 9696. The one that got away. What happened? Oh my god, my heart breaketh for all these people that are still thinking about things.

The one that got away. Yeah. Not always sad though. I thought I had the one that got away. Yeah. Not always sad, though. I thought I had the one that got away a few years later working as a probation officer. I saw his name in the system. So... You didn't get away.

You got away. You got away. That's great. But there's so many examples of this. I broke up with my ex when I was 19, freaked out and ended it. Instantly regretted it. We never gave it another shot.

I was heartbroken. It's been eight years. I'm now married with two babies but there is a massive period of what if and what if he was the one? Big believer in if it's meant to be to me. I'm happily married. I love my husband so it's all good but I still think about it. A lot like

that. I'm happy now. I'm good. I love my life but I still think about it. Anonymous has called it. Anonymous, do you have the one that got away? I'm happy now. I'm happy now. I'm good. I love my life, but I still think about it. Anonymous has called it. Anonymous, do you have the one that got away? I do. I do. But in saying that, unlike the last one, I don't miss that person. And I do think, you know, we're both better off.

So, yeah. So what happened? Well, we were young. We were together for years. I want to say, like, six years. Toxic, but very much in love. And he bought me a diamond through my auntie, who was a jeweler at the time, to have my engagement ring made. Oh my God.

And then we broke up after all that. And we're both now happily married with kids. And I do always wonder every time I see his partner, are you wearing my diamond? Oh yeah! Oh yeah! I was like, it was a large diamond

so I'm like, how would you, and it wasn't safe so how could you resell the diamond so I'm like, she must have it in her ring I mean, you're not getting a fresh diamond are you? 100% If it was already a ring, you'd get a new ring but just I mean, you're not getting a fresh diamond, are you? 100%. If it was already a ring, you'd get a new ring. But just the diamond, you're like, yeah.

Yeah, exactly. Oh, my God. Next time you see her, you've got to glance at the finger nice and close. I know. I try and look on Facebook. I'm trying to, like, zoom in on the phone. And I love, Anonymous, that you're like, I don't care. I don't want to be with you.

I'm fine. I'm fine. Is that my diamond? Is that my diamond? Anonymous be with you. I'm fine. I'm fine. Is that my diamond? Is that my diamond? Anonymous, thank you. Some messages in. I got away, but he got me back. Oh.

We messaged briefly on Tinder, then I called it off as I started seeing somebody else. Three years later, I'm back on Tinder. Their noise, they provided their own sound effect there. And this man messages me saying he remembers me and he isn't missing out this time. Gave me specific facts he remembered about our chats that were accurate.

We just got married five years. We just got married five years and six rescue cats later. That's too many cats. Yeah, I rescue one and that's enough. That's too many. I met the love of my life when we were 12 years old. Dated from 16 to 22. That's a long time.

Then broke up. I moved to New Zealand. He stayed in the UK. Went back to the UK for my 40th. And then we met up. So that's like almost 20 years later. We met up. It was lovely.

It became clear that homosexuality was what got in the way. Oh, no. He was the one who thought that I got away. But my lady bits would have been quite a problem. Yeah. I let my one get away. He was the purest, loveliest guy, but I wasn't ready. And when I finally thought I was ready, he said he had a girlfriend.

She's 10 years younger than him too. Okay, well, fresh. He's got it tight. Yeah. That's got to hurt as well. That's a double layer of pain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not only is he not with you, he's with someone.

She's up, up, up. 10 years younger. Down, down, down. Yeah. It'll come down. There are so many amazing messages we don't have time for. We broke up 18 years ago. He was my one that got away.

Both of our marriages ended and we met up for a few days last year after not seeing each other after all these years. It was incredible. Heart healed. Best thing ever. Wow. Did you do it? Heart It was incredible. Heart healed. Best thing ever. Wow. Did you pay? Did you do it?

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